Guest guest Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 That's great, . I was very impressed with the amount of fiber you're eating. I'm trying to eat a lot of fiber too. How are your blood sugars doing? May God bless you. Lota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 This is how my meals looked for Saturday: Breakfast 593kcal: ----------------- Grapefruit juice 84 Crispbread 24%-fiber 95 Margarine 85 Corned beef 32 Tomato 19 Radish 4 Boiled ham 91 Mustard 5 Cheese Gruyère 144 Tea 2 Milk 1.5% 32 Mineral water 0 Lunch 329kcal: ------------- Apple 92 Nectarine 79 Yoghurt 124 Tea 2 Milk 1.5% 32 Mineral water 0 Dinner 471kcal: -------------- Tomato 77 Onion 7 Red beet* 22 Olive oil 140 Broccoli* 52 Natural rice* 110 Mushrooms* 6 Eggplant* 10 Lean pork* 110 Olive oil 93 Onion sauce 0 Mineral water 0 --------- Total energy: 1393kcal * = cooked Protein: 87g (26e%) Fat: 56g (37e%) Carbohydrate: 124g (37e%) Alcohol: 0g (0e%) Water: 3298g Fiber: 31g ------------------ My 30-day average is: -------------------- Energy: 1555kcal Protein: 84g (22e%) Fat: 41g (31e%) Carbohydrate: 175g (47e%) Alcohol: 0g (0e%) Water: 3382g Fiber: 30g (Note: 1 oz = 28.34g) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 > I was very impressed with the amount > of fiber you're eating. I'm trying > to eat a lot of fiber too. It is a very strange thing but I saw the recommendation to eat 30g of fiber a day. So I decided to work out how much I was getting first and then correct it by changing some low-fiber foods in my diet. The first time I did it I found that I was already getting the 30g of fiber from eating the recommended way (mainly fruit and vegetables and some grains and milk products and just a little meat and fish and olive oil.) This leads me to the suspicion that nobody knows how much fiber we need. All that they did was the same as I did - work out how much we were going to get anyway if we ate the way they recommended and that was it: 30g! It would have been silly if by eating the way they recommended, we would not get the amount of fiber they recom- mended, wouldn't it? From this and other experiences, I have been led to the inevitable con- clusion that this whole nutrition busi- ness is not much more than witchcraft - they bend the little science there is on the subject to match what the healthiest people they can find are already eating. Not a bad idea if you are dealing with people in large numbers but no guarantee that it will be just right for individuals. There might be some truth in the notion that if you try to find out where the USDA got its figures for the ideal protein/fat/carbohydrate ratio (15%/30%/ 55%) you get the story that by adding up all the available food supply in the world in millions of tons and working out how much protein, how much fat and how much carbohydrate there is in total out there for everybody, it comes out at 15e% protein, 30e% fat and 55e% carbohydrate (e=in terms of energy). If they had come up with any other recommendation for individuals it would have meant a tremendous shift in the entire world food economy so 15/30/55 it had to be. Then if you look at the microbiology of it, there is a story that if you measure the requirements of individual cells in the human body and work out the average requirement for all the billions of cells in an average human body you come up with - you guessed it! 15e% protein, 30e% fat and 55% carbohydrate! There is power in the numbers! Unfortunately, I have not been able to get my protein down to 15e% nor my car- bohydrate up to 55e% on a long-term basis and my own physician has told me that it is extremely difficult to do. I have tried asking nutritionists to test me and tell me what proportion I need personally and they reply that it cannot be done that way. > How are your blood sugars doing? I have had HbA1c of 5.4% for years now on 500mg metformin HCL/day, thank you for asking, Lota. For a time, when I had my weight down to around 78kg (172 lbs), I had HbA1c of 4.5% but the hypo risk was too great and I reduced my medication to 250mg/day to get back up to 5.4%. Since then I put on weight again to over 90 kg (198 lbs) and went back to 500mg/day. Now I am losing weight again since May 22nd and expect that my HbA1c will do the same as before. Life has its ups and downs! Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 It's not going to take you long to get the weight off the way you are eating. You are really doing well. May God bless you. Lota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 It's not going to take you long to get the weight off the way you are eating. You are really doing well. May God bless you. Lota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 It's not going to take you long to get the weight off the way you are eating. You are really doing well. May God bless you. Lota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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